Carl Javér

BIOGRAPHIE

Born 1972. Swedish documentary filmmaker who pioneered with the digital, small team, observational style – maker of three large documentary series and a handfull of full length documentaries. Lecturerand appriciated workshop leader in documantery filmmaking all over Scandinavia. 23 years old he debuted, in 1996, with ”Tel al-Zaatar – The road back”, 60 min, SwedishTelevision, co-directing with Anders Berggren. Nominated and complimented at ECHO TV and Radio Awards, also nominated for the Swedish Television IKAROS prize. In 1999 he made one of the first large documentary series in Sweden, ”The Hospital”, 8x30 min, TV4. It got a large audience and the critics applauded it. 2001 ”The Highschool”, 8x30 min, TV4, Director. The series was debated in the Swedish parliament, nominated for the ”Swedish Journalist Prize” and voted ”Best Documentary” by the second largest newspaper in Sweden. 2003 ”Heroin”, 60 min, TV4, Director, editing. Recived large audience and great reviews. 2005 ”Warehouse No 180”, 60 min, Swedish Television, Director, editing. 2007 ”Everyone Finds Love But Me”, 60 min, Swedish Television, Director, editing. 2010 he made the 3x60 minutes documentary series “The Crash” about the layoffs at car manufacturers SAAB and Volvo. Premiered in SVT 2010. 2012-2013 Carl made the short documentary ”Freia and the Wannabe Indians”, screened by SVT in 2013. At this time directing the feature length documentary "Freak Out" - the alternative movement begins, a Swedish-German-Danish-Norwegian Co-production, presold to eight countries, opening in 2014.

FILMOGRAPHIE